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7 smugglers held, four still on the run

TNN | Updated: Oct 22, 2018, 11:32 IST

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KADAPA: In what could be called a face-saving act, seven out of eleven red sanders smugglers who managed to abscond from the forest department office in Rajampet on Saturday morning, were nabbed by the cops near Railway Kodur and Renigunta on Sunday. Eleven red sanders smugglers were nabbed by the forest department staff during a combing operation in the Rollamadugu forest area and were brought for questioning to the forest department office on Friday night. But by Saturday morning, all the eleven smugglers managed to flee by breaking open the iron grills of a window. However, the forest department staff along with the local police laid a massive manhunt to nab the absconding smugglers.

And on Sunday morning, three red sanders smugglers were nabbed when they were on the move near Railway Kodur while four others were nabbed near Renigunta. The hunt is still on to nab the remaining four red sanders smugglers still at large.